Word: alumna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Allan Neilson, who retires August 31, asked Mrs. Morrow to run the college ad interim. First woman to head Smith (although it was started in 1875 with money contributed by rich Spinster Sophia Smith), Mrs. Morrow was no illogical choice for the job. She is a Smith alumna ('96), mother of three Smith alumnae (Elisabeth '25; Anne '27; Constance '35), has been a Smith trustee since 1926, helped raise the college's endowment from $2,000,000 to $6,000,000 (to which her husband, Morgan Partner Dwight Morrow, contributed...
Result of such mid-Victorian restrictions and the finishing schools' training, says Miss Ogden, is that their graduates: 1) become too much interested in men, 2) overemphasize their own importance, 3) become class-conscious, 4) know very little about the world. Farmington's most famed alumna is Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow...
...Affiliated Schools' 3,000 "alumnae," nearly all have gone back to their old trades. There many of them do missionary work, start local classes. But several have gone to college after the summer course and one made Phi Beta Kappa. To show "what Bryn Mawr meant to me," one alumna led a former director of the school into a new, glistening, modern bathroom in her tenement flat, boasted: "There's not another bathroom for miles around...
Many Georgia women cannot understand frequent references to Madame Chiang Kai-shek as a Wellesley alumna when they remember her as a student at Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. Here are the facts...
Stocky, round-faced President-elect Wildman, 47, is a loyal DePauw alumnus (Class of 1913), is married to a DePauw alumna, has a twelve-year-old daughter who is a prime DePauw prospect. Fortified by these considerations and by the fact that abandoned Methodist preaching for Wildman long teaching, since De-Pauwites hoped that, even though he is eligible for a bishopric, he will turn it down should one be offered...